Artificial intelligence-assisted approach to assessing bowel wall thickness in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease using intestinal ultrasound images.

Background And Aim: Intestinal ultrasound (IUS) potentially spares patients from repeated endoscopies under sedation and eliminates the need for alternative imaging modalities like magnetic resonance enterography and computed tomography enterography scans. However, interpreting IUS images is challenging for physicians due to the time-intensive process of identifying markers indicative of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This study aims to fully automate the analysis of pediatric IBD to distinguishing between abnormal and normal cases.

Factors Associated With Aborted Whipple Procedures for Periampullary Carcinoma: A Multicenter Case-Control Study by the SAR Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Disease Focus Panel.

A number of patients with periampullary carcinoma deemed resectable on preoperative CT have their curative-intent surgery aborted on the basis of intraoperative findings. This study sought to identify imaging and clinical factors associated with aborted curative-intent Whipple procedures for periampullary adenocarcinoma. Ten U.

Denoising Echocardiography with an Improved Diffusion Model.

Echocardiography has been a crucial role in diagnosing cardiac disease. However, its effectiveness is often hindered by poor image clarity. Acoustic interference arises from multipath reflections caused by skin layers, subcutaneous fat, and intercostal muscle between the US transducer and the heart.

Structural Characterization and Antioxidant Properties of a Novel Polysaccharide Isolated from .

In this investigation, a novel heteropolysaccharide, denoted as PS-HW1, is isolated from . The achieved PS-HW1 polymer exhibits a molecular weight of 1.22 × 10 kDa and composes the residues of d-glucose, d-fructose, and d-galactose in a 1:1:2 ratio.

Dietary protein intake and stomach cancer, insights from a case-control study.

Studies on the role of protein intake in the development of stomach cancer (SC) remain controversial. This study examines the relationship between protein intake from whole foods and SC in a Vietnamese population. A case-control study was designed in the university hospitals in Hanoi, Vietnam, from 2003 to 2019.